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I mentioned this on my site before that Burgher Chris Preksta is the director, writer, producer and even music scorer of the online SyFy series Mercury Men, which I love.

I mean that. If you haven’t yet watched the series, you really need to do it. It’s sort of a throwback to the sci-fi genre in the, well, I guess 50s and 60s if I had to guess, and it’s filmed in Pittsburgh (nice shots of the city, especially the USX Tower), written by a Pittsburgher, and it even STARS a Pittsburgher, the incredible Curt Wootton, who I’m just going to say this about: WOWZA ON A TRISCUIT.

You have to see him in action in the series, which includes a hearty dose of comedic relief in nerdy office worker Edward. Curt makes for a very eye-candyish action hero. He is formerly from Hempfield and now in LA working hard at his acting career.

I had planned to do an interview with Chris Preksta about Mercury Men for my magazine blog’s next Five Questions For … but sadly he never sent me back the answers and that’s okay because he’s a busy filmmaker n’at, and I’m just a blogger with ray-gun envy [pew pew].

A few days ago, @Pittsburgh_Dad started following me on twitter and I immediately followed back to keep my eye on the account which held a lot of promise with Burghy dad-isms that really reminded me of my own dad.